it sounds like your DNS is screwed up, or your network connection, it doesnt look like your even connecting to it at all you should see, as you did with the other test emails you sent, a section of output, where the two servers are communicating the data. hot mails bad, it's feisty when it comes to junk mail, but not that feisty, you might try capturing your network packets, and see whats going on are those two other .com's within your org, or outside it, i.e. are you just having trouble connecting to mail servers outside the organization? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971798#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...